(I'll call the two known suspects Black Hat & White Hat because their names are a finger-tongue-twister at the moment & they don't DESERVE to be named)
I'm watching MSNBC, right now. They've shut down Boston, told citizens to stay indoors. Black Hat was killed in a shootout last night. White Hat apparently is barricaded someplace with a bomb strapped to his chest. They may have had another accomplice who's on the run. Black Hat & White Hat are brothers from Chechnya who's family came here seeking asylum. After the photos/video were released the brothers panicked and started robbing convenience stores & killed a police officer at MIT.
Folks are speculating that the older brother, Black Hat may be the ring-leader or guy who came up with this nefarious attack, White Hat, the little brother was his sidekick. There may be other goons with them.
Unfortunately it turns out that it may be connected to Islamozealotry. There's a video on YouTube that one of the brothers may have put up a few months ago where he yammers about some sort of Islamic prophecy involving an army of warriors from central Asia who'll bring the "infidels" to their knees.
These are my theories:
* Two or more cretins with Islamozealot beliefs & delusions of grandeur, inspired by this alleged prophecy, decided to do this stuff.
* These guys are an actual cell, from an actual organization & did this.
I'm also thinking to myself, why did no organization take credit? Are these guys acting alone & got stupid ideas from Islamozealot websites? Why would Chechans attack America? Isn't their big beef with Russians?
A personal confession of mine, I was hoping this wasn't Islam-related. I was actually hoping it was either 1-2 lone crazies, white supremacists, far-right goofuses or stuff of that sort. The fact these guys are Muslim Chechans is going to open up a whole can of worms & perhaps provide ammunition for the TEAliban bunch in Washington. Now, I can only hope these were two wayward kids from a nice peaceful Muslim family that read way too much Islamozealot sites & got stupid ideas. Kids with no real sense of self tend to turn into bigots when they are sucked in by hate sites. Same happens with overly impressionable Muslim kids with Islamozealot sites. They get radicalized.
It seems, they MIGHT have White Hat surrendering but we don't know for sure.
Okay, Black Hat's dead, White Hat is holed up someplace in a standoff. There's a third, unnamed guy they're looking for who's out some place.
They're now talking to the suspects uncle, right now. He appears to be disgusted with his nephews & is now saying that they brought shame upon the family name & upon Chechnya & that his surviving nephew should surrender to cops and also bow before the bombing victims & Allah and beg for forgiveness. He calls whoever may have influenced his nephews "losers"! The uncle spoke glowingly about The United States & the opportunity for a new, peaceful life it gave him & the family (they have been through hell).
The family's a good family & it seems this is a case of "Young people with issues who picked up stupidity from websites and/or a bad crowd".
Y'know, I'm all for freedom of speech and the press. I will always loathe stuff like SOPA & whatnot but I feel an exception should be made for hate/terrorist websites. You wouldn't shout "FIRE!" in a theater & you shouldn't have junk like websites for hate organizations that can influence & recruit impressionable young people. Also, we should educate people about these ideologies (religious zealotry of any faith, white supremacy, black supremacy, homophobia, etc.). We need to put the hate groups totally underground again & give those who teach love and tolerance a fighting chance.
Also, a site should go through a set of qualifications before it can be blocked. That way, sites won't be banned willy-nilly. If the sites are for an organized group and incite violence & hate crimes, block it! If it's simply a site where random goofs make bigoted comments, leave it alone (we FSTDTs folks need our material, anyway).
